How to disable Laravel 5 log file?

Question

My Laravel 5 website is working in a shared host with 1 GB disk space. But now I have about 100 MB log file. How I can disable log file in Laravel 5 ?

Answer 1

In order to completely disable logging you'll need to overwrite the default log handlers that are set by Laravel. You can easily do this with

$nullLogger = new NullHandler(); \Log::getMonolog()->setHandlers(array($nullLogger)); 

You need to call as early as possible, before request is processed, e.g. you could do that in your bootstrap/app.php:

$app->configureMonologUsing(function($monolog) {   $nullLogger = new \Monolog\Handler\NullHandler();   $monolog->setHandlers(array($nullLogger)); });  return $app; 

Answer 2

If your log is very large then either you are logging a lot or your application is throwing a lot of errors. You should first examine the log and see if you can reduce data being written.

You can also switch to daily logging and then have a job to delete old log files.

The next thing to do would be to update your logging configuration to daily instead of the default single in config/app.php

Laravel will handle rotating the file daily and deleting old log files after 5 days, or the value of the app.max_log_files if you need more kept.